Sakana Namazu vs Solar Pro 4: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Sakana Namazu is developed by Sakana AI, while Solar Pro 4 comes from Upstage. Both were released in August 2026.
The two models share 2 published benchmarks. Sakana Namazu leads on 2 of them. The widest gaps are on MMLU-Pro, where Sakana Namazu scores 90.3% against 86.3%; AIME 2026, where Sakana Namazu scores 96.7% against 95.3%. Averaged across everything we track, Sakana Namazu sits at 92.4% and Solar Pro 4 at 69.9%.
Solar Pro 4 is the cheaper API at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens, roughly 3 times cheaper than Sakana Namazu at $0.95 and $4. Solar Pro 4 takes the larger context window at 524K tokens, compared with 256K for Sakana Namazu. Sakana Namazu accepts text and images as input, while Solar Pro 4 accepts text.
| Characteristic | Sakana Namazu | Solar Pro 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Sakana AI | Upstage |
| Release Date | August 3, 2026 | August 6, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Multimodal | Yes | No |
| Context (input) | 256K | 524K |
| Context (output) | 256K | 131K |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.95 | $0.30 |
| Output Price / 1M | $4.00 | $1.20 |
| Average Score | 92.4% | 69.9% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| MMLU-Pro | 90.3% | 86.3% |
| AIME 2026 | 96.7% | 95.3% |
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Verdict
Solar Pro 4 leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Sakana Namazu — 0.9, Solar Pro 4 — 0.7.
Solar Pro 4 is 3.3x cheaper: input $0.30/1M vs $0.95/1M tokens.
Solar Pro 4 supports a larger context: 524K vs 256K tokens.
Both models were released around the same time: 8/3/2026 and 8/6/2026.
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